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Mercari

Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace for secondhand goods

Catalog & Taxonomy Specialist

Data ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMinato City, Tokyo, JapanNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Experience coordinating requirements and driving decision-making in collaboration with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience devising and executing a vision while considering both user and business perspectives.
  • Experience in at least one of the following: building, managing, and operating master data; supporting decision-making through data analysis using SQL; or directing an operations team.
  • A positive mindset toward using artificial intelligence, including experience personally testing and improving its implementation in business processes.
  • Japanese proficiency at CEFR C1 level is required.

Responsibilities

  • Gather issues and use cases from teams that use metadata, including search, listing, and new business teams, and define optimal metadata requirements such as item attributes, granularity, and hierarchy.
  • Determine the attributes and quality standards required for each category based on its characteristics, such as brand, size, and color for fashion items, or manufacturer, model number, and release year for electronics.
  • Review how existing metadata is used with SQL and other tools, and continuously update it.
  • Design manuals and direct the operations team to complete metadata development and registration.
  • Maintain metadata quality after registration by continuously monitoring metrics such as coverage rate and mismatch rate.
  • Use artificial intelligence to automate tasks involved in metadata development, including research, analysis, and registration, to increase throughput.
  • Document decision criteria and procedures as guidelines, and standardize and roll them out for reuse across other categories and businesses.
  • Present engineers with improvement requests for the metadata platform and registration tools to strengthen the development environment.
  • Set priorities and a roadmap according to the order in which metadata is built and optimized, in collaboration with product managers.
  • Review initiatives and their impact on search, listing, and purchasing, and use the learnings to determine which categories and areas to address next.

Desired Qualifications

  • Domain knowledge and expertise, or a strong interest, in a specific category such as fashion, hobby items, or electronics.
  • Experience systematizing and standardizing work using artificial intelligence.
  • Experience defining requirements for product development in collaboration with product managers and engineers.
  • English proficiency at CEFR B2 level is preferred.

About the Company

Mercari

Peer-to-peer mobile marketplace for secondhand goods

Mercari operates a mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for buying and selling secondhand goods. Users list items by taking photos in the app, and buyers complete purchases there, with payments held in escrow until receipt is confirmed. Revenue comes from seller fees (10% in Japan; 10% plus 3.6% buyer protection in the US), plus Merpay payments and promoted listings, plus shipping partnerships for integrated delivery. The platform differentiates itself through a simple mobile experience, escrow and buyer protection, shipping integration, and a broader marketplace including Mercari Shops for sellers, with a goal of extending product life and supporting a circular economy.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Tokyo, Japan
Founded
2013

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